Roger Penrose Quotes & Sayings

“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”

“This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.”

“And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.”

“People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.”

“Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.”

“Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.”

“Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.”

“As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.”

“My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.”

“In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.”